Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - The Voice lyrics

How old was I when everything you
Understood started to come together?
I think that really started happening to me
Started probably happening to me when I
Was in my early 20s
I realized at about that age
That almost everything I said was a
Falsehood of one form or another
I was using language instrumentally in
Order to win arguments
Or to attain dominance, indicate
That I was intelligent, or
To use it for victory, for narrow local
Personal victory and I realized that when I
Was in my early 20s, and I started
To, 'cause a voice, in some sense
A voice started inside my head
Which I now regard as something
Equivalent to Cricket in "Pinocchio"

The voice it's your opposite
The voice that makes you buck
The voice it's your opposite the voice
The voice it’ s your opposite
The voice that makes you buck the voice
The voice

And continually inform me that the
Things I was saying
Weren't in some fundamental
Sense weren't true
And it was very disquieting
Because the voice that was commenting
On what I was saying
Was making comments of that sort
I wouldn't call them disparaging
It was more, just a
Matter of fact commentary
But it was saying about 95%
Of what I was saying
And I thought, "Well, that's
A strange conundrum, because now I don't
Know if I'm the voice that's
Criticizing what I'm saying
Or if I'm the thing that
Saying what's being criticized"
How do you figure that out?
But I decided that I would take a chance and
Assume that the part that was suggesting that
I wasn't saying things
Truthfully was accurate, and I
Started to practice always
Saying things that
That voice wouldn't object to

The voice it's your opposite
The voice that makes you buck
The voice it's your opposite the voice
The voice it’ s your opposite
The voice that makes you buck the voice
The voice

And I think that's also equivalent to
Some degree to trying to
Say only those things that make
You strong instead of weak
Or that do not fill you with a
Post-speech sense of shame and regret

(Voice, Voice, Voice, Voice
Voice, Voice, Voice, voice)